Some of you are unreasonably praising Javed for attaining our team total of 208. Mind you, it was Khaled Mashud's 43 ball 42 that got us that total. It was Pilot who played the innings that was demanded at the situation.Though not entirely his own fault, some of the dismissals had javed's hand indirectly. Some one who has survived the intial overs, got his eys in, got a fifty, should be taking singles and two's at ease. Not many teams get 4's and 6's in the middle overs against defensive field and slow bowlers. You have to change your game in the middle to cope with that difficult period. If someone just holds on to one end ( that doesn't mean not scoring at all ) and don't rotate ( as he is guilty of doing that ), they pressure will fall on the other batsman to take the initiative to up the run rate. Consequently, the other batsman, will take unnecessary risks ( like Aftab comingdown the wkt ) to break the shackles. Aftab at least has the right intention. I question Javed's intention here. he can be forgiven for not having the ability to find the gaps, but, he must show his intention at least to do so. Never ever did I see him after 40 th over to at least go for some boundaries as needed, whereas, pilot, a much lesser batsman supposedly, who faced a lot less balls, scored half of Javed's run in one fourth the amount of balls than Javed's. If you are happy with his performance, so be it, but also be sure that such an innings can never build a reasonable team total. The negatives far out weighs the positives here. I would have been happier with a 240+ total in 45 overs! not 208 playing all 50....

"If someone is asked to keep one end up that does not necessarily mean it has to be done just to serve that purpose only. It is always good to push a single here and there and once you are doing that it releases pressure on the other batsman on the other side," remarked the Bangladesh captain.

Originally posted by TheWatcher
"If someone is asked to keep one end up that does not necessarily mean it has to be done just to serve that purpose only. It is always good to push a single here and there and once you are doing that it releases pressure on the other batsman on the other side," remarked the Bangladesh captain.

there you go. Straight from the horse's mouth. I don't know about y'all, but I think habibul knows a little bit more about cricket than we do. If the captain of the team says that javed's batting puts other batsmen at difficult situation, I have no reason to doubt him.

the comments from Bashar are refreshingly forthright instead of his usual BS about playing better next time.

Hey I don't disagree about JO needing to learn to rotate the strike better, Definitely would have been nice. I think the shock of the collapse the day before may have prompted extra-defensive blocking by JO and comments from me that he alone was not to blame.

ps Fahmida, I think you were over-reacting to my comments but if they were hurtful I'm sorry.

For those who are against JO and how he batted, i think you all need to learn how cricket is played. Its not played by typing words or through discussions, its played out in the middle and a lot of theories that we can perfect out here doesn't neccessarily apply out there!

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Take a bow! the master is here!

Seriously, did you watch the game? Look, 81 out of a total of 208 sounds really good on paper and if you just look at the score card at the end of the day. But you really have watch the proceedings live to understand the detrimental effect of painstakingly slow batting of JO.

By the way, if you think we are the only Golla Bashers here and terming us cricket illiterates, you should have listened to what Botham, Gower was commenting about JO.

Originally posted by Sham
[Rafiq bhai, how are the rest of the batsmen supposed to do that if they take a single of the first ball and then Javed plays out five dots? It was ridiculous batting at best.

I think we need a Javed in the top order, but he really needs to learn to take singles. In one day cricket, you just cant waste over after over after over just blocking everything out just so that we can play 50 overs. Its negative cricket and has never helped any team! I would much rather that Bangladesh would push for 240 and give itself a chance, rather than this awfully boring 208, which will never be enough!

In short, Golla should have taken 20 more singles over the course of his innings atleast, which would have given him a deserved 100, give the other batsmen more of the strike and add another 40-45 runs to the team total, which would have made the match competitive, even though the result would probably be the same. 81 off a 150 balls when you opened and played out the overs with the fielding restrictions and then most of the slog overs as well is unacceptable!

Sham has made some really good points here and I think the captain, commies all felt the same way, although many in this thread suprisingly felt otherwise. I watched the other day against England when they scored 391, JO giving away 3-4 dot balls then took a single. Ash after painfully watching 4 balls wasted, slogged almost every balls he could face to keep up. As if he was playing for both players and trying extra hard to make up for 2.

If JO could have managed 3 singles or 2 doubles, his partner could have played less risky shots. Bashar rightfully said JO's approach created extra pressure on his partner. This is very true, JO's partner knows he has to play extra hard with extra pressure to make up for JO's 4/5 dot balls per over. This forces unwanted mistakes leading fall of precious wkts. I have seen his partners even running some very risky singles, just to get a strike.

In my opinion JO is just not great of a batsman who can actually fulfil our expectation. Taking a single no matter how easy it seem to us, might as well be extremely difficult for him. This unfortunately dont make him a complete ODI batsmen. And I also DONT think he is capable enough to change his quality or approach overnight. He is however doing much better than others in the first 15 overs saving wickets, so after that if he cant get out of his shell, he might as well come back either throwing away his wicket or pretending that he is retired hurt or something